Cross-country

The student-athletes from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland won the Country Challenge at the 2022 FISU World University Championship Cross-country held in Aveiro, Portugal. Ugandan and French runners also shined. In rainy and windy conditions, Isobel Fry (gold) and Saskia Millard (silver) clinched Great Britain’s first medals, as they dominated the […]

The 2022 FISU World University Championship Cross-country will take place on Saturday on the campus of the University of Aveiro, in Portugal. Students athletes from 20 different countries will run in an area entirely restored for the occasion.   “Organizing this competition gave us the opportunity to rehabilitate a degraded area of the university campus […]

  One month from now one of the longest established FISU World University Championships will again bring together the world’s student-athletes when the 2022 FISU Championship Cross-country takes place. The city of Aveiro, in the northern region of Portugal, along with the University of Aveiro will host this 22nd edition of the event on 12 […]

  On an evening billed as a world record day, former FISU World University Cross-country Championship titleist Joshua Cheptegei smashed the men’s 10,000 metres mark at the Valencia World Record Day event.   Crossing the line in a stunning 26 minutes 11.02 seconds in a near-empty socially-distanced Turia stadium, Uganda’s Cheptegei wiped the last of […]

Uganda’s Jospeh Cheptegei demonstratingly reacts to knocking two seconds off one of the oldest athletics records in the books by running 12:35 for the 5000m at the Monaco 2020 Diamond League (Photo courtesy @MeetingHerculis Twitter) History was in the making on a hot and humid night at the Monaco 2020 Diamond League as Uganda’s Joseph […]

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) was informed by the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training of the Kingdom of Morocco that they decided to postpone the 2020 World University Cross-country Championship in Marrakech, Morocco, due to the coronavirus outbreak. The Championship was to be held on 7 March 2020. The statement FISU received statement said: “In view […]